Installation of My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on pain, the upcoming exhibition by Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi




ALB team member Rola Khayyat and Al Fadhil

Aissa Deebi (l) Rola Khayyat (m) Al Fadhil (r)

Aissa Deebi











all photos © 2011 Aissa Deebi

Artists in Dialog: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi
My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain
29 April - 26 June, 2011, Fri - Sun, 2-6PM and by appointment
Opening: Thursday 28 April, 2011 8PM

Round table discussion Al Tahrir: The Day After, 1 May, 2011, 3PM

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition project Artists in Dialog: My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain on 28 April.

The exhibition, the third in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog, is a discoursive dialog between the Iraqi Swiss artist Al Fadhil and the Palestinian-American artist Aissa Deebi, and explores the complex ties between the personal and the political in the theme of loss.

My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain was first conceived 2005 by the artists during a common artist residency in Taiwan. Both artists had lost brothers in respective conflicts in their countries of origin. Al Fadhil has lost two brothers to the wars in Iraq. Aissa Deebi's younger brother Nasim died in Israeli police custody in 1999. The medical report labeled the death a suicide, something the artist and his family dispute.

Al Fadhil, Saddam Hussein with the Artist's Father, March, 26 1983, 2011

The exhibition focuses on both the artists' personal experience of loss and the cultural aspects of mourning and grief: Fadhil comes from a Shiite Iraqi family, whilst Deebi is Greek Orthodox. By means of photography, video and installation the exhibition will explore the three deaths and their political and historical context.


Aissa Deebi, Fish Hill, flip photography, digital print, 2011


More information at: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm

In cooperation with:

With the generous support of:

Special Thanks from the artists and Art Laboratory Berlin to:

Makboula Nassar, photography assistant, Haifa
Osama Daoud, Project manger and producer, Cairo
Rasha Hillwi, Editor, Ramalah
Katie Siman, research assistant, Haifa
Samlan Natour, Writer, Haifa
Bruce Ferguson, Dean of Huss at the American University in Cairo

Sol LeWitt_Symposium
19/20 February, 2011


Introduction (Regine Rapp)


Keynote speech (Gregor Stemmrich)


Paul Maenz


Paul Maenz


Jonathon Monk


Ken Wahl







Christian de Lutz, Jonathon Monk, Maru Ituarte


Volker Straebel


Afterwards at Relais de Savanne

More information at: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-10.htm

Photos copyright 2011, Art Laboratory Berlin

Sol LeWitt_Symposium

19/20 February, 2011
Venue: Glaskasten, Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin (next door to Art Laboratory Berlin)

1970, Schematic Drawings for Muybridge II, 1964, New York: Multiples Inc.

An occasion in which all the artist books of Sol LeWitt are gathered into one exhibition invites further study. As we have done in previous exhibitions Art Laboratory Berlin would like to bring together artistic practice and scholarly debate, in this case in the form of a symposium. The complex nature of Sol LeWitt's artists' books specifically calls for examination by a variety of disciplines.

Beginning with a survey of the concept and the conceptual in LeWitt's work, continuing with a reflection on the medium of the book and the problem of authorship, the initial contributions will sketch LeWitt's art from art historical and literary perspectives. Additionally, contributions from the philosophy of art, musicology and mathematics will reflect on space and time, the question of a possible terminology and the phenomenon of serial geometric forms. Similarly, LeWitt's aesthetic production and his relationship to graphic design will be discussed. Finally, contributions from an artistic perspective as well as those of friends and collectors will illuminate practical and theoretical aspects of LeWitt's artistic work.

The symposium is open to the public and does not charge an admission fee (donations are welcome). The language of presentation corresponds to the respective announcements in the program; questions and contributions in both German and English, during the discussion, are of course possible.

The exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin (Prinzenallee 34) will be open on 19 and 20 February from 12-8PM.

more at:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-10.htm

Program

Saturday, 19 February, 2011
The exhibition will be open from 12-8PM

14:00
Regine Rapp Art Historian, Art Laboratory Berlin
Welcome and Opening

Keynote
Gregor Stemmrich Art Historian, Free University Berlin
"smart enough to be dumb". Sol LeWitts Konzept des "Konzeptuellen"

15:30 Break

16:00
Annette Gilbert Philologist, Free University Berlin
"[To] be read as a complete thought". Zu Sol LeWitts Verständnis des Buchs als (künstlerisches) Medium

Manuela Schöpp Art Historian, Humboldt University Berlin
Sol LeWitts Konzept der Autorschaft in seiner Autobiography

17:30 Break

18:00
Paul Maenz Collector, Berlin
Sol LeWitt - 100 Dollar und die Folgen...

Ken Wahl Artist, Berlin/ New York
Embodying the Concept: Sol LeWitt and the Aesthetic Paradox

Jonathan Monk Artist, Berlin
The Location of Eight Points

20:00 Reception in Foyer
followed by a buffet in the restaurant Relais de Savanne, Prinzenallee 33

Sunday, 20 February, 2011
The exhibition will be open from 12-8PM.

14:00
Adrian Piper Artist and Philosopher, Berlin
Die Einheit in Sol LeWitts Œuvre

Volker Straebel Musicologist, Technical University Berlin
Werkbegriff und Partitur-Metapher in Sol LeWitts wall drawings

Michael Rottmann Mathematician and Art Historian, Free University Berlin
“To See the Program in it.” Zur Rolle der Mathematik in der seriellen Kunst von Sol LeWitt

16:00 Break

16.30
Sabeth Buchmann Art Historian and Critic, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien/ Berlin
(In-)Visible Things on Paper

Aissa Deebi Artist and Graphic Designer, American University Cairo
Sol LeWitt as a Conceptualist Designer. Theory and Practice in Post-war Graphic Art

18:00
Regine Rapp Art Historian, Art Laboratory Berlin
Conclusion

Location of the Symposium: Glaskasten (former Schmidt's Ballhouse), Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin (right next to Art Laboratory Berlin)

Symposium concept: Regine Rapp, Art Laboratory Berlin

Organisation and realisation: Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Christina Korzen, Heiko
Pfreundt, the Art Laboratory Berlin Team
Contact: presse@artlaboratory-berlin.org

In cooperation with:
Special thanks to Michael Schröder for his support of Art Laboratory Berlin this exhibition and its program.

Sol Lewitt. Artist's Books
22 January - 13 March, 2011




Press conference 21 January, 2011


1996. “Black Squares”. Cologne, In "3rd ArtistBook International", 28,5x18cm
1973. “Cercles &lignes”. Paris, Yvon Lambert, 10,5x10,5cm


Christian de Lutz, Ramiro and Cinta Villapadierna


1988, Variations on I Am Still Alive On Kawara Firenze,
Exempla, Zona Archives; Lugo, Exit, 12 x 12cm


left 1972, Lines &Lines, Arcs &Arcs, Lines&Arcs, Amsterdam Art &Project, Bulletin 60 ;
rights- 1973, Quatre Dessins Muraux, Amsterdam, Art & Project, Bruxelles MTL,






wall drawing (WALL DRAWING # 233, „Location of a Triangle“, 1974 Sammlung Paul Maenz)




1974. Locations of Three Geometric Figures. Hamburg, Hossmann; Brussels,
Yves Gevaert, Societé des Expositions,











Emanuele de Donno & Giorgio Maffei


Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz


De Donno, de Lutz, Rapp, Christina Korzen, Maffei

All Photos © 2011 by Tim Deussen/ fotoscout.de for Art Laboratory Berlin

Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books
22 January - 13 March, 2011
Fri - Sun 2 - 6PM and by appointment

Opening 21 January, 8PM

The exhibition SOL LEWITT. Artist's Books opening at Art Laboratory Berlin on 21 January presents the complete oeuvre of 75 artists' books produced by the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, dating from 1967 to 2002. This exhibition pays tribute to the unique bibliophile production of the artist, who died in 2007.

SOL LEWITT Artist's Books, a collaboration between Art Laboratory Berlin and Viaindustriae, in Foligno, Italy, has previously been shown in Paris, Sheffield, Istanbul and Ljubljana, and after Berlin the exhibition will travel on to Athens and New York.

In addition to an intensive exhibition program (gallery tours, talks and the possibility of visitors to study the artist's books in detail) Art Laboratory Berlin is also planning an inter-disciplinary symposium on the artistic practice of Sol LeWitt (in February 2011).

Upper row : (l) Sol LeWitt, Geometric Figures & Color, New York: Harvey N. Abrams, 1979 / (r) Sol LeWitt, Autobiography, New York: Multiples; Boston: Lois and Michael K. Torf 1980// middle row: (l) Sol LeWitt, Photo Grids, New York: Paul David Press; Rizzoli, 1977 / (r) Sol LeWitt, Lines & Color, Zürich: Annemarie Verna 1975 // lower row:(l) Sol LeWitt, Opening Series, Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications, 1994 /(r) Sol LeWitt, Cock Fight Dance, New York: Rizzoli & Multiples,1980

The American artist Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was an influential figure in minimalism and is considered one of the most important representatives as well as co-founder of American conceptual art. The term "conceptual art" goes directly back to LeWitt: "If the artist carries through his idea and makes it into visible form, then all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps - scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations - are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product." (Paragraphs, Artforum, June 1967)

LeWitt's intensive artist books production was extremely versatile: he used different designs and formats as well as varied techniques from color lithography to offset printing. Finally the phenomena of reproducibility was part of the concept: "Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced." (ibid.)

In cooperation with and Special thanks to Michael Schröder for his support of Art Laboratory Berlin and this exhibition.

Happy New Year 2011

Art Laboratory Berlin wishes you all a Happy New Year 2011!

May all your wishes for health, love, happiness and fulfilling projects come true in the New Year.

We would like to thank all the artists who took part in our program this year. We would also like to thank all those people who made our program possible. And finally our thanks go to all our visitors and our virtual public for their great interest, the intense exchange of ideas and feedback.

May we all meet again at our next event – the opening of the show SOL LEWITT. Artist’s Books on January 21, 2011.

Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz

& the Art Laboratory Berlin Team

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Art Laboratory Berlin wünscht Ihnen / Euch allen ein Frohes Neues Jahr 2011!

Mögen sich all’ Ihre / Eure Wünsche für Gesundheit, Liebe, Glück und gelingende Projekte im neuen Jahr erfüllen.

Wir möchten uns bei allen KünstlerInnen bedanken, die in diesem Jahr an unserem Ausstellungsprogramm teilgenommen haben. Unser Dank geht auch an all’ jene, die zum Gelingen aller Veranstaltungen beigetragen haben. Schließlich möchten wir natürlich unserem Publikum – vor Ort und virtuell weltweit – für das große Interesse, den intensiven Ideenaustausch und das Feedback herzlich danken.

Lasst uns wieder zusammenkommen an unserem nächsten Ereignis – der Eröffnung der kommenden Ausstellung SOL LEWITT. Artist’s Books am 21. Januar 2011.

Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz

& das Art Laboratory Berlin Team